Prints

[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair twelve chromolithographs, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Eight are by Spy, two are by Ape, one by "T" and one by Lib. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Titles comprise: "Accrington", June 11, 1892, "Newcastle Upon Tyne" July 18, 1893, "A New Peer", October 5, 1878, "South Bucks", June 4, 1896, "South Kensington", September 2, 1897, "Lord Salisbury's Manners", July 13, 1893, "The Blister", August 4, 1888, "A Postmaster General", April 30, 1892, "Sir James Miller", September 6, 1890, "Sol", October 28, 1897, "A Young Man" September 11, 1875, and "A Naturalist", September 9, 1882. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...

Mid-late 19th century hand-colored lithograph of the "Magpie". It is from the Rev. F.O. Morris' "History of British Birds" published by Groombridge and Sons in London Sight: 7" x 4.3...

Presented is a photogravure by James Michael Brown entitled "Hoylake-Punch Bowl Hole." The print depicts a 1910 foursomes match on the course, annotated in the bottom border "Mr. John Graham, Jnr., Mr. C.E. Dick, Mr. John Ball Amateur Champion, 1910, Mr. H.H. Hilton." The photogravure was published in the Life Association of Scotland calendar for that year. James Michael Brown (1853-1947) was an accomplished Scottish water-colorist, famous for his golfing scenes of British and Scottish courses, competitions, and players. Brown often had famous golfers of the time sit for him during competitions and he used these studies to help him later reproduce accurate likenesses of the players in his paintings. A keen golfer himself, Brown was a founder member of Mortonhall Golf Club in Edinburgh, where he was introduced to fellow member Dr. J. Turnbull Smith, the manager of the Life Association of Scotland. The Life Association of Scotland was established in Edinburgh, in 1838. It later formed the Insurance and Banking Golf Club, which then became the Duddingston Golf Club. In 1898, to mark the opening of the extended Club House, Smith commissioned Brown to paint a scene from an exhibition golf match at the Club. Brown's painting was then printed as the centerpiece of the 1899 Life Association of Scotland calendar. Although expensive to commission and publish, The Life Association of Scotland board justified the expense of the calendar by stating, “it must surely be the aim and desire of a Life Assurance Association to prolong the lives of those who take out policies with them and what sport is there that can compare with golf as a cure for all the ills that flesh is heir to…” The calendar was a great marketing and advertising success. As a result, Brown was then commissioned to paint an annual golfing picture for the club. Prints were made of the originals and issued in the calendar for each year. Brown painted 26 paintings for the Life Association and these all adorned the walls of the Edinburgh head office for many years. The paintings portray not only Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister at Walton Heath, but also a host of famous golfing personalities like Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, James Braid...

A rare lithograph of a portrait of Queen Victoria in her later years, entitled “Her Majesty the Queen" in nice lemon gold period frame. Sight: 17 ½ by 21 ½ Frame: 23 ½ by 27 ¾

Grande incisione nautica tratta dall’Enciclopedia di Diderot edita in Parigi, raffigurante una Galera vista di fianco con disegni delle ancore intitolata al centro Marine Dessein d’u...

Late 19th century "Bluebellied Roller" chromolithograph by John Gerrard Keulemans, published London. Coracias cynogaster. Keulemans, Dutch, 1842-1912. Published by M&N Hanhart, Londo...

Presented is a handsome photogravure of "A Difficult Bunker" by sporting artist Douglas Adams. "A Difficult Bunker" is one in a famous trio of three paintings depicting the links at ...

An impressive collection of prints by Cornelis Troost shows vividly the everyday life of the eighteenth-century middle class. Colored by one hand and h...

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Antique Print of Nantucket Daydreams, by Henry S. Wyer, Nantucket, circa 1900, a period print depicting a gentleman in overstuffed wing chair by the hearth, a copy of Nantucket's "Inquirer and Mirror" open on lap, smoking a cigar and leaning back lost in thought: in the curls of smoke are simple sketches of many iconic Nantucket landmarks and views. Flanking the fireplace in place of tiles are a series of miniature copies of eight of H.S. Wyer's photographs. This is one of the rarest of antique Nantucket prints...

18th century Italian spolvero rococo scroll pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an fragment scroll frame and adorned with polished fossil agate coral. Spolvero is an artisti...

18th century Italian spolvero pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a coordinating antique red frame and adorned with polished garnets and red ruby stones. Spolvero is an arti...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a custom frame and red phantom quartz crystals. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a des...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique red frame and adorned with red ruby stones. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferrin...

18th century Italian spolvero 'cherubs' pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique scroll frame and adorned with fossil agate coral. Spolvero is an artistic method of tr...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique wood frame. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design from a print to the p...

18th century Italian spolvero rococo scroll pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an fragment scroll frame and adorned with polished fossil agate coral. Spolvero is an artist...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique molding frame and citrine crystals. Spolvero is an artisti...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a custom frame and citrine crystals. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design from a ...

18th century Italian spolvero "fruit and foliage" fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique wood frame. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design f...

18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique molding frame and citrine crystals. Spolvero is an artisti...

A set of 6 antique botanical fruit lithographs by Walter Muller. "Lith Ansi v Walter Muller Gera" lower right. "Nach der Natur van Muller Gera lowe...

This delightful original copper engraving by Giovanni Volpato ( 1733-1803 ) after a painting by Francesco Maggiotto ( 1738-1805 ) was executed in Venice in 1765. A little boy, carry...

18th century German, a hand-colored engraving of a dressage horse and rider from Description du Manège Moderne by Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron Rais d' Eisenberg (German, ca. 1700-ca. 1770). Engraved by Bernard Picart (French, 1673-1733). Titled "Le Brillant", this dressage engraving is plate XXXIII. There is a gallery label verso. The print is matted and framed under UF-3 plexiglass, which offers the maximum amount of UV protection (approx. 97%). This print was originally part of an illustrated book Baron d'Eisenberg made describing the art of the cavaliers and depicting the different breeds of horses- The full title of the book is L'Art de Monter a Cheval: ou Description du Manége Moderne, Dans sa Perfection, published in Leipzig: Arkstée et Merkus, 1747). A set of 7 framed engravings from the same book sold at Sotheby's for $9,500 (plus tax and buyers premium). Reference: The author, a German horseman and artist, spent some of his youth at the manège of Saxe-Weimar before entering into the service of the Emperor. He then spent six years in Naples as the Master of Horse of the Viceroy before returning to Vienna where he studied under M. de Regenthal, the imperial Master of Horse. He participated in the coronation of the Emperor Charles V at Frankfurt in 1711, then spent some time in England, but was back in Germany before 1753. He probably died in Tuscany where he was Director and Master of the Horse at the Academy in Pisa. Brunet II, 957; Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 438. The Baron wrote several important and lavishly illustrated books on horses: his Description du manège moderne dans sa perfection, London 1727, and Dictionnaire des termes du manège moderne, 1747, being the best well-known. He dedicated Description du Manège Moderne to King George II and to his son, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Subscribers to the book included royalty and nobility from all over Europe. The engraver was Bernard Picart, born in Paris in 1673. He gained honors at the Academy of Paris at the age of sixteen. He was a master designer and engraver and worked in Paris and Amsterdam until his death in 1733. Dimensions: 9"h x 12"w (sight), 16.5"h x 19.25"w (frame) Condition: Good, some rippling to sheet, not examined out of frame. Provenance: Lombard Antiquarian Maps & Prints, Cape Elizabeth...

A pair of 18th century Italian spolvero patterns printed onto canvas and adorned with 18th century Italian fragments and red fanthom quarts points. Spolvero is an early method us...

This is a set two framed French engraved art prints. The first one is titled “La Conversation Interessante”. It depicts an 18th century group of lover’...

Beautiful antique frame with a print of dancing Greek graces. The frame is made of wood, with refined carving and graceful curls. The wood is decorated with stucco and gilded with gold leaf. The print is also interesting, it is an antique print with beautiful gold print, depicting the dancing graces...

Created by William Ward (British (English), 1766-1826), after George Morland (British (English), 1763-1804) Lettered below title: Two blooming Nymphs all in a downy bed / In virgi...

JOSIAH BOYDELL AFTER MICHELANGELO DI CAMPIDOGLIO British, 1752-1817 "A Fruit Piece" (1779) Mezzotint on paper Item # C104056 A finely preserved and unframed mezzotint on paper b...

This antique print in its original frame was copyrighted by George Henry Patnoe & Henry Brown of Canada in 1909 in a Victorian style. The print depicts the symbolism of the Lodge and...

Portrait crayon copper engraving of Johannes Ewald (1743-1781) by Johan Terkel Kleve (1743-1797) Engraving on paper, approx. 1770. Measures incl. frame 24 cm.

A Folio of Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891 first edition text and plates. Chromomo- lithographed plates by Gillot, colored and decorated in raised gold by hand. The sevres porcelain fa...

Victorian "Bird" Spider print mounted on a lovely faux marble paper ground showing large spider attacking a trapped bird. Black painted wood frame. Some p...

Lovely etching on paper in back ink by Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto). Measurements: 22" x 15" Hand-numbered in pencil at the bottom right with the number 6. Part of a co...